A short history of physics in the American century / David C. Cassidy.
As the twentieth century drew to a close, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the advances in physics underlying these applications are poorly understood and widely underappreciated by U.S. citizens today. In this concise overview, David C. Cassidy s...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | New histories of science, technology, and medicine.
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Table of Contents:
- Entering the new century
- American physics comes of age
- Surviving the depression
- The physicists war
- Taming the endless frontier
- The new physics
- Sputnik : action and reaction
- Revising the partnership.